Man of Music
Композитор Глинка
The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.
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Cast
Boris Smirnov
as Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Lev Durasov
as Alexander Pushkin
Lyubov Orlova
as Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka
Yuri Lyubimov
as Alexander Dargomishky
Sergei Kurilov
as Karl Brullov
Mikhail Nazvanov
as Czar Nikolai I
Berta Vinogradova
as Giuditta Pasta
Georgiy Vitsin
as Nikolai V. Gogol
Irina Likso
as The Czarina
Faina Shevchenko
as Mme. Ivanovich
Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky
as Dmitri Petrov
Andrei Popov
Pavel Pavlenko
Sergei Vecheslov
as Vladimir Odoevskiy
Crew
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Olga Kruchinina
Costume Design
Grigori Aleksandrov
Screenplay
Pyotr Pavlenko
Screenplay
Eduard Tisse
Director of Photography
Pāvels Armands
Assistant Director
Vissarion Shebalin
Original Music Composer
Grigoriy Ayzenberg
VFX Director of Photography
Lyudmila Aleksandrovskaya
VFX Supervisor